Original Autographs
The question “Do you believe in the inerrancy of the original autographs?” is both a loaded question and a question-begging question. Hence, it is both fallacious as well as a defection from the standards of historic orthodoxy because it restricts the theological notion of inspiration to the lost original autographs alone, thus leaving believing communities without a present infallible Bible today. As such the phrase is in contradiction to the expressions of the historic orthodoxy of the past, which spoke in terms of initial inspiration and concomitant preservation and expressed this in the language of the infallibility of the apographs, rather than in the modernist phrase “inerrancy of the autographs”…
If we won’t admit to having God’s infallible scriptures to guide us today, how can we claim to be Christians?
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